Stop-And-Frisk Deemed Failed Policing Policy, Though It Is A Fantastic Control Policy

From the Daily News:

Stop-and-frisk has removed thousands of guns from the city’s streets — but the NYPD detained millions of innocent New Yorkers to find them
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A Columbia law professor testified Wednesday that just one gun was recovered for every thousand people stopped from 2004 through June 30, 2012.

“The NYPD hit rate is far less than what you would achieve by chance,” Jeffrey Fagan said in Manhattan Federal Court.

Testifying in the federal class-action lawsuit against the city and the NYPD’s controversial tactic, Fagan said his analysis of paperwork from 4.4 million stops found guns were confiscated at a rate of roughly one-tenth of 1 percent, or 5,940 firearms.

Knives and other contraband were nabbed in about 1.5% of stops, taking 66,000 weapons off the street, the professor said.

And 12% of the 4.4 million stops during that time period — roughly 528,000 — led to an actual arrest or a summons, Fagan said.

And the rest were “just let go?” asked Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin.

“Yes, your honor,” Fagan replied.

You'd find as many guns on the street by chance as they do by Sop-And-Frisk.

And yet the mayor and the commissioner continue to defend the policy as necessary to get illegal guns off the street.

 

It is quite clear from the numbers that there is another agenda at work here.

As State Senator Eric Adams testified to on Monday, Kelly and the Bloomberg want every young black and Latino man in the city in fear.

That's the agenda, that's the rationale behind Stop-And-Frisk.

They use the guns thing as an excuse.

This is about power and control, pure and simple.